Have been behind in updating this site. Spent last week at Acton University in Grand Rapids, where I met Deltan last year.
Deltan decided NOT to run for mayor but to concentrate on building his political party.
I made some new Brazilian friends!
Marcel is another courageous Brazilian speaking truth to power.
According to religious liberty advocacy group ADF International, Christians have found their content banned on social media or their user accounts suspended if, for example, they criticize the Brazilian President, Lula da Silva, for expressing his support for expanding access to abortion.
Many have already been unjustly imprisoned by the Brazilian courts.
The Wall Street Journal’s excellent reporter, Mary Anastasia O’Grady, highlighted one in her column this week.
Lawyers for Filipe Martins, who considers himself a political prisoner of the left-wing Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), say the court is using the error on the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) website as proof to imprison him. Martins was arrested on February 8 at the order of STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who is using records showing travel to the United States — and the lack of corresponding Brazilian immigration records — as evidence that Martins defrauded the immigration system by leaving the country undetected.
That Court is saying this U. S. government error justifies indefinite incarceration because Mr. Martins is a flight risk.
“It has been widely known that de Moraes has been fearing the growth of conservatives,” Martins’ attorney, Ana Barbara Schaffert, told The Daily Wire. “This extended, unfounded imprisonment indicates that they are trying to torture him into confessing to anything that fits their narrative, because there is nothing legally that can detain him in jail.”
As with lawfare here in the U. S. A., the process is the punishment. Mr. Martins is removed from the scene as a political opponent and the lesson is clear to others who might speak out.
Deltan continues to speak out against Brazilian government abuses:
“ They are trying to silence, arbitrarily and abusively, those who are outraged by the inefficient, negligent and ineffective stance of the Federal Government in effectively helping the people of Rio Grande do Sul in the face of this sad and regrettable natural disaster, which has already claimed the lives of hundreds of people and left thousands homeless ,” declared Dallagnol and Ribeiro.
That is a lot for one post!
I plan to update at least 3 or 4 times per month.
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